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China boat with 450 passengers sinks
A passenger ship carrying over 450 people sinks in the Yangtze River in southern China.

A passenger ship carrying over 450 people sinks in the Yangtze River in southern China.

Germany calls for the removal of Israel’s eight-year-long blockade on the Gaza Strip.

CIA Director John Brennan is “taking the lead” rather than President Barack Obama in “representing the actual view” of the administration on the US fight against ISIL.

A fresh US drone strike kills four people in Pakistan’s northwestern restive tribal region.

At least 20 militants are killed in fresh clashes between the ISIL terrorist group and Taliban militants in the troubled western Afghanistan.

A group of Chinese economic officials are in Iran to review investment opportunities.

Iran is to hold talks with European countries over gas exports to EU on the sidelines of World Gas Conference.

Senator Lindsey Graham entered the 2016 presidential race on Monday, pledging to make national security the focus of his campaign.

Courts in Egypt hand down prison sentences to 100 anti-government protesters.

British police can access personal data hundreds of times per day.

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney will likely play a major role in the forthcoming Republican presidential race.

The US is spearheading NATO war games in Baltic states and Poland.

Unknown militants completely destroy a mosque in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula.

Germany and France say the European Union should revise its plans to admit asylum seekers.

The UK government is planning to expand its military training role in Iraq and Turkey.

Violent clashes between Afghan police and Taliban kill over a dozen people in northern Afghanistan.

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry busts a terrorist ring.

Islam is growing fast in the UK as Church of England wanes, study shows.